How Anthony Rapp Has Begun to Heal in His Fight Against Abuse in Hollywood

variety.com:

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Currently one of the stars of “Star Trek: Discovery,” Anthony Rapp has recently spent some time looking back and reliving his past.

Off Broadway, he’s starring in “Without You,” his autobiographical show about his experiences in the original cast of “Rent” and the deaths of composer Jonathan Larson and his own mother.

And in court, the actor — one of the first to come forward with allegations of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey — recently relived his experiences with Spacey during the proceedings for a civil suit brought by Rapp against Spacey. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: Spacey was found not guilty, but on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast, Rapp said it was all worth it — not least because it’s been one step in a long process of healing. “On balance?

It’s worth it in the sense that my coming forward helped pave the way for others to come forward, and has helped protect people,” he said. “And there’s a part of my 14-year-old self that got to come full-circle in a way that I didn’t know was possible.” He added that after years of focusing on the abuser, he’s more recently started to turn attention back on himself. “It was only really in the last few years that so many of us started to talk about ourselves and how [these incidents] affected us, and started to really start to try to square that circle and patch wounds that we didn’t even recognize as wounds,” he said.